Description
We are looking for backend engineers to join our team to help improve critical product infrastructure, with a focus on building systems that have a great developer experience and will scale as we grow.
We currently have openings on: Base Infrastructure: We are looking for strong engineers with leadership experience to join the Serving Infrastructure organisation. You will primarily work on the Base Infrastructure team, whose key projects include building replication to support zero downtime failovers, optimising performance and memory usage, and vertical scaling. Data Infrastructure: The Data Infrastructure team’s mission is to enable data-driven decision making at Airtable by providing reliable, self-service, high-performance analytics infrastructure. We use technologies like Apache Spark, Kafka, and Apache Flink to process vast quantities of data in our data warehouse.
What you'll do
Proactively identify and lead significant improvements to Airtable’s infrastructure, working across teams and product areas to maximise business and engineering impact. Work on systems-level problems in a complex design space where scalability, efficiency, reliability, and security really matter. Build clean, reusable, and maintainable abstractions that will be used by Airtable’s engineers for years to come. Take full ownership of components of Airtable’s infrastructure, including responsibility for reliability, performance, efficiency, and observability of our production environment.
Who you are
You have at least 8 years of industry experience, and are excited about learning new technologies and applying them in a fast-changing environment. You have experience in areas such as databases, distributed systems, service-oriented architectures, and data infrastructure. You derive joy from refactoring and building clean abstractions in order to make complex systems fun to develop on and easy to understand. You have a strong background in computer science with a degree in CS or a related field. You are currently based or willing to relocate to the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City for this role.